I was contacted by this number stating i would go to jail if i didnt pay 800 to them. i believe this to be a scam. I was also contacted bu a 213 and 214 area code numbers. Has someone had the same thing happen to them?
What they're doing is breaking federal law. To know your consumer rights, go to www.ftc.gov and they'll tell you how to handle these thieves. They've called me and my husband trying to say I took out a payday loan last fall and we'll go to jail if we don't pay it back. That's illegal; you can't go to jail for not paying a debt. Second, it's illegal to give a military personnel or family a payday loan. Third, according to federal law they are required to send this "debt" in writing. The cops told me to get as much info from them as you can without disclosing anything about yourself. Then document the calls and report to FTC.
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm- here are the places to report this-
This is clearly internet fraud as they got your info from a database- you can find field office #'s for the FBI at www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field/fieldoffices
Type of Crime
Appropriate federal investigative law enforcement agencies
Computer intrusion (i.e. hacking)
* FBI local office
* U.S. Secret Service
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Password trafficking
* FBI local office
* U.S. Secret Service
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Counterfeiting of currency
* U.S. Secret Service
Child Pornography or Exploitation
* FBI local office
* if imported, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Child Exploitation and Internet Fraud matters that have a mail nexus
* U.S. Postal Inspection Service
* Internet Crime Complaint Center
Internet fraud and SPAM
* FBI local office
* U.S. Secret Service (Financial Crimes Division)
* Federal Trade Commission (online complaint)
* if securities fraud or investment-related SPAM e-mails, Securities and Exchange Commission (online complaint)
* The Internet Crime Complaint Center
Internet harassment
* FBI local office
Internet bomb threats
* FBI local office
* ATF local office
Trafficking in explosive or incendiary devices or firearms over the Internet
This number has been calling me non stop my cell phone and my work phone. a mr. robert jacobs and kelvin walker. what can i do to make them stop caling me. i have no clue what they want and they keep saying they will come to my job with the cops and the fbi to arrest me.
Starting today i been receiving call from #5702313157. It has been a indian man who left a message on my cell phone and my job number. He had also called my manager stating that if i do not call them back that the going to have the authorities come and arrest me and her. I believe these are the same people who tried to swindle money and threaten me and my job about me owing money. I just wish the FBI or somebody catch these people and put end of there fraud.
I just hung up the phone with the same situation. He told me that I had money depsotited into my account, which I did not, and that I commited fraud or something like that. I had a real hard time understanding him. The first call I was hung up on because I was "reflecting attitude". He wanted me to verify all of my personal information, but I refused. He also told me that a warrant has been issued for my arrest as well as my boss. He asked me if I wanted to settle in court or out of. told him in cout because this is obviously a scam, and asked him who my Attorney would need to contact. He stuttered, and said they can only contact him. The name he gave me was Jeremy (He was an Indian man) 5702313157. After sevral attempts to obtain his Attorney's info he gave me the name Robert Jacobs as his Attorney 5702439034.